St.Louis Botanical Garden,etc.......

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Fri Jul 23, 2010 10:04 am

Some pics-

JackLord · Post by **JackLord** » Fri Jul 23, 2010 11:20 am

The dome pics remind me of that movie, Silent Running.

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Fri Jul 23, 2010 11:42 am

Looks like a great vacation.
My wife was in St. Louis last week (on our anniversary, actually) but I couldn't go. We have a date to go back in late September and we'll visit their famous botanical garden. Your photos made me all the more eager for the trip. --Erik

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Fri Jul 23, 2010 12:22 pm

Hey Jim thanks for posting those.
Bet you drooled over that tree fern.

Always amazed at how skinny a Trachy trunk is near the base...no wonder they hate windy sites.

They'll have to add a glass cupola to make room for that palm soon.

Cool basilica and stadium pics.
Glad you had a good vacation.
Who looked after your plants while you were gone????

And Erik and W...happy anniversary!

Barb

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Fri Jul 23, 2010 3:13 pm

Thanks for sharing

Good pics!

BILL MA · Post by **BILL MA** » Sat Jul 24, 2010 7:49 am

You guys must have had a awesome time!!! Looks like you sure covered the bases while you where there. What a nice looking botanical garden, I don't know where to start with the comments there was so many great shots. You must have wanted to dig up those tree ferns and bring them home with you

That caster bean tree must was really cool, is that how big yours is now

Loved the shots Man!!!

Bill

Knnn · Post by **Knnn** » Sat Jul 24, 2010 8:20 am

Thanks for the photos!

Steve

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Sat Jul 24, 2010 1:21 pm

Steve, does Kansas have a botanical garden? --Erik

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Sat Jul 24, 2010 2:43 pm

Great photos......enjoyed viewing them. Thanks for posting.

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 7:56 am

Very nice!!!!!! I had no idea st louis was that nice, or had a botanical garden like that.

Knnn · Post by **Knnn** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 10:02 am

Erik, There is Botanica in Wichita and Powell Gardens east of Kansas City.

Steve

Rubtherock · Post by **Rubtherock** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 7:58 pm

Beautiful place. Thanks for sharing...

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 7:22 am

Thanks guys/gals,the St.Louis zoo and B-gardens are some of the best in the world.

You could spend a whole day at either and not see everything.

The Basilica is not to be missed,it will blow you away when you see the size of this place and how much
time was spent placing every 1/2" tile,the place is huge and has one of the biggest unsupported domes anywhere.

The Florida royal palm in the Climatron has it's spear touching the top of the structure.

I believe the truncked Yuccas at the zoo are a green form of Gloriosa,these grow outside unprotected,
I would love to get one to try here.

Pretty exhausting trip.

I posted those Oleander pics for you Bill,thought you might enjoy,pretty cool they were
(I believe)growing unprotected in St.Louis,they also had huge bamboo and giant reed grass 30' and 20'
tall respectively.

Barb-
the Fortunei was one palm that had plenty of room to grow taller

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 9:02 am

I didnt know st louis had that kind of climate to grow oliander, let alone yucca gloriosa :O

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 8:19 am

It is possible the Oleander are in large pots that are sunk in the ground.

The Yuccas were quite a surprise!

They look like you garden variety Yucca that grow all over the country and are hardy
to at least -30f,these had trunks though!

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 6:56 am

To me they looked more like Dreceana then Yucca. Id love to know the species, and give em a try up here ( im pretty sure you were thinking the same thing lol)

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 11:00 am

They are a more soft leaved Yucca so the leaves droop more but they look almost exactly like the
type you see all over in yards up well into Canada.

Here's another pic of this variety-you can see the trunk if you look closely-

O'damn, now look at those babies,why didn't I snatch some?

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 12:11 pm

Here are some more pics from the trip.

Rose window in Cathedral

Big a$$ bird at the zoo-damn noisy too

Whats this thing called?-he carries his house on his back!

Couple for Bill

Magnolia

Chammy

Old man palm

Friendly little chap

American Holly

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 3:23 pm

As far as I know, the most common one ive seen is Yucca Filamentosa (sp). I dont know to much about them, paulont knows more as far as I knwo.

Lasiocarpa are cool. I think i might have one. I mixed up the pots

Looks healthy there.... Im waitin on some red torch ginger to sprout too...

Great pics once again dude

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 8:37 pm

Thanks Mon

BILL MA · Post by **BILL MA** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 8:20 am

Those yellow nanas are nice, looking at mine they'll probably bloom over the winter, I stopped fertilizing them too.

Real pretty mag. there awesome!!!

Bill